Happens to everyone, and kudos for being sport about it.

More like those in Runaway

Buy them a ticket to Russia, but make sure it's on one of those Aeroflot jets that don't have brakes any more...

Got my AWS architect cert 2 weeks ago.

What you can do is setup a spot fleet so it'll fill up with spots and only use on-demand if spot goes above the on demand price.

You could also have a pure spot fleet and a reserved instance and use a load balancer with health checks to route traffic.

The one thing you shouldn't do with cloud providers is lift and shift your existing instances, that's what leads to the crazy prices some people are seeing.

Renting an ec2 on demande and installing your software is almost always the wrong way to do it.

Nvidia 1060 for graphics, got it back in 2017 and haven't seen the need to upgrade.

If I do change it, I'd be tempted to go AMD, but blender compatibility does have me worried.

You got it wrong, it's:

That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.

(no not all conservatives/climate change deniers are narcissists but the overlap is interesting)

Personally, I've just switched to using https://www.understandingwar.org/ for my daily update and https://warontherocks.com/ for the deep dives.

The amount of useful information is similar, and the signal to noise ratio is far better.